Stool – Stool and Rectum – Chapter 20 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

CHAPTER 20.
STOOL AND RECTUM.

Anus
* Cholera Asiatica * Cholera
Infantum * Cholera Morbus
* Constipation * Diarrhœa
* Dysentery * Flatus
* Hæmorrhoids * Rectum
*

Stool
* Before Stool * During
Stool * After Stool * Worms

Stool.
A-B
* C-D * E-F
* G-K * L
* M-Q * R-T
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Stool :-

Undigested food,
contains :-

(See
Lienteric.)

Unsatisfactory :-

(See
Insufficient, Scanty.)

Urging

(desire)
(See Difficult,
Forcible ;
also Rectum Pressure,
Tenesmus.) :-
Aloe, Anan.,
Aphis, Apis,
Ars-h., Asc-t.,
Calad., Carb-v.,
Chen-v., Cimx.,
Cinnm., Coloc.,
Cupr-s.,
Cycl., Iodof., Lil-t.,
NUX-V.,
Op., PLB.,
Rheum, Rhod.,
Staph., Tab.,
Tarent.,
Vib., Vinc.

Abdomen, felt mostly in
middle of, in evening, no stool follows :-

IGN.

Abdomen, with griping
in :-

Rheum.

Abdomen, with pinching
in, and loss of consciousness :-

Spig.

Awakes :-

Kali-bi.

Awaking, on :-

Dios.

Awakens early in
morning :-

Petr.

Awoke with, about 5
A.M. :-

Trom.

Awaking 6 A.M. :-

Arg-n.

Backache, with :-

Plat.

Bearing down in abdomen
and rectum :-

Corn.

Bed, immediately, on
turning over on left side

(dysentery) :-
PHOS.

Beer, weiss-bier,
after :-

Card-m.

Bruised, with, sore
sensation low down in abdomen

(phlegmasia
alba dolens) :- Nux-v.

Chill, immediate, after
nervous, passed a little urine, and chill and desire for stool
ceased :-

Syph.

Cholera, with :-

Nux-v.

Clawing, with, cramping
pains in stomach, extending to chest or down back to anus

(gastralgia) :-
NUX-V.

Coffee, lessened by
sweetened

(pain
in stomach) :- Mag-p.

Colic, with :-

Coloc.,
Elaps.,
Sabad., STAPH.

Colic, in
bilious :-

Iris.

Colic, with, awakes 5
A.M. :-

SULPH.

Colic, after :-

Cast-eq.

Constant :-

Æsc.,
Berb., CROT-T.,
Merc-d.,
Nat-s., Sulph.

Constant, after
stool :-

Dros.

Constant, followed by
slight discharge of blood and mucus :-

Merc-c.

Constant, cannot
accomplish much

(colic) :-
Dios.

Constant, with colicky
pains

(chronic
diarrhœa) :- Gamb.

Constant, with dark
brown blackish discharge :-

Crot-h.

Constant, in
dysentery :-

Lil-t.

Constant, in bilious
dysentery :-

Elat.

Constant, worse
immediately after eating :-

Aloe.

Constant, with rumbling
in bowels all day :-

Ptel.

Constant, in
hæmorrhoids :-

Sabin.

Constant, after gonorrhœa :-

Coca.

Constant, with gnawing
high up in rectum :-

Casc.

Constant, with pressing
in epigastrium and umbilicus, after stool :-

Crot-t.

Constant, with pressure
on rectum :-

Ptel.

Constant, in order to
relieve soreness in bowels :-

Con.

Constant, with scanty
or absent stool :-

Ptel.

Constant, as soon as
patient sits or stands

(dysentery) :-
NUX-V.

Constant, in gastric
derangement :-

Rob.

Constant, without
success :-

Con.

Constant, in prolapsus
of uterus :-

Lil-t.

Contraction, with, of
intestines :-

Sars.

Croaking, with, as of
frogs :-

Sabad.

Cutting, with, in
abdomen :-

Viol-t.

Cutting, following,
griping :-

Acon.

Cutting, after, in
umbilicus :-

Camph.

Cutting, with, aching
pains in umbilical region :-

Verat-v.

Cutting, with sharp, in
right inguinal region :-

Iodof.

Darting in rectum

(diphtheria) :-
Lac-c.

Diarrhœa, as if, would
set in :-

Nux-m.

Diarrhœa, ends with :-

All-c.

Difficult, hard :-

Aspar.

Discharge
insufficient :-

Camph.

Distress, with sudden,
in hypogastric region :-

Polyp.

Dreads, which
she :-

Inul.

Eating, after :-

Bar-c.,
Bor., Hydr.,
Ox-ac.,
Sin-a., Sin-n., Zinc.

Eating, rectum, in,
after supper :-

Calc-p.

Evening, at 11
P.M. :-

Asc-t.

Evening, in, with
griping in whole lower abdomen :-

Dulc.

Feet, brought on by
hanging down, stool involuntary if not at once responded to

(chronic
diarrhœa) :- Rhus-t.

Fever, intermittent,
in :-

Cocc.

Flatulence,
after :-

Crot-t.

Flatus, passing
only :-

Cahin.,
Myric., Osm., Rob.

Flatus, only hot,
passes :-

ALOE.

Flatus, rumbling, with,
in evening :-

Asim.

Flatus, rumbling, with,
nothing passes :-

All-c.

Frequent :-

Hep.,
Hyos., Merc-i-f.,
NUX-V.,
Ph-ac., Plat.,
Stram.

Frequent, with
sensation as if anus and rectum were weakened by long continued
diarrhœa :-

Coloc.

Frequent, not better by
free evacuation

(dentition) :-
Staph.

Frequent, as if diarrhœa
would occur :-

Puls.

Frequent, in gastralgia
and leucorrhœa :-

CAUST.

Frequent, with small,
soft discharge :-

Ruta.

Frequent, in
dysentery :-

Arn.

Frequent, followed by
rumbling, gurgling in left side of abdomen :-

Crot-t.

Frequent, every 1/2
hour :-

Arn.

Frequent, 3 or 4 times
a day, but only a little scentless wind passes, giving relief

(syphilitic
neuralgia) :- Syph.

Frequent, in organic
disease of heart :-

Apis.

Frequent, without
evacuation :-

Coloc.

Frequent, without
result :-

Lachn.,
Nat-m., Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Fulness, with, and
uneasiness in bowels :-

Corn.

Griping, with :-

While riding :-

Psor.

At 1st solid, then
bright yellow and pasty :-

Ant-s-aur.

Heat, with, and pain in
bowels :-

Podo.

Hæmorrhoids,
in :-

Æsc.

Ineffectual :-

Æsc.,
All-c., Alumn.,
Ant-m., Aphis,
Arn., Aster.,
Bar-c., Bell.,
Benz-ac.,
Bov., Brach., Carb-ac., Carb-an.,
Carb-v., Chim., Coc-c.,
Con., Ferr.,
Fil.,
Gymno., Ham., Ign.,
Lach., Lyc., Merc.,
Nicc., Nit-ac.,
NUX-V.,
Olnd.,
Pic-ac., PULS.,
Rat., Stram.,
Ter., Verat.

Ineffectual, with
anxiety :-

CAUST.

Ineffectual, with
bearing down towards sacrum :-

NUX-V.

Ineffectual, with
burning in rectum towards perineum

(diphtheritic
dysentery) :- Nit-ac.

Ineffectual, in cholera
Asiatica :-

SULPH.

Ineffectual, with
severe colic :-

Rob.

Ineffectual,
constant :-

Bry.,
Cann-s., Ptel.

Ineffectual, constant,
in evening :-

SIL.

Ineffectual, in
coryza :-

Calc.

Ineffectual, with
cutting in bowels :-

Phos.

Ineffectual, followed
by cutting in ribs of left side, with pain under left scapula, as if
a piece of flesh were being twisted out :-

Corn.

Ineffectual, in
dysentery, felt in sacral and hypogastric region,
distressing :-

Merc-c.

Ineffectual, with
erections :-

Ign.,
Thuj.

Ineffectual, in evening

(headache) :-
Bism.

Ineffectual, with
redness in face :-

CAUST.

Ineffectual, feels
feces in rectum but cannot expel :-

Colch.

Ineffectual, with
sensation of a mass in lower part of rectum and discharge of
offensive flatus :-

Sang.

Ineffectual, during
apyrexia :-

Ign.

Ineffectual, in bilious
remittent fever :-

Crot-h.

Ineffectual, emission
of flatus only :-

Laur.

Ineffectual, better by
frequent passages of flatus :-

Colch.

Ineffectual,
frequent :-

Berb.,
Con., Corn.,
Lac-d., Nat-m., NUX-V.,
Plat., Spig.,
Sulph.

Ineffectual frequent,
alternating with liquid stools :-

Nat-c.

Ineffectual frequent,
makes her anxious :-

Ambr.

Ineffectual, frequent,
with passage of fetid flatus which disgusts her :-

SULPH.

Ineffectual, with
heat :-

Rat.

Ineffectual frequent,
with small stools or only flatus :-

Mag-c.

Ineffectual frequent,
with pain :-

CAUST.

Ineffectual frequent,
with violent pain :-

Merc-c.

Ineffectual, frequent
urging with prolapsus ani :-

Ruta.

Ineffectual frequent,
preceded by a sick distressed feeling from navel downward, worse
when thinking of it :-

Ox-ac.

Ineffectual, though
bowels seem full :-

Ant-t.

Ineffectual, with pain
in head :-

Lil-t.

Ineffectual, with
hæmorrhoids, which are painfully sore :-

Merc.

Ineffectual, with urine
suppressed for 48 hours :-

Par.

Ineffectual, better
after cold milk :-

Iod.

Ineffectual, worse from
motion, walking :-

Rheum.

Ineffectual, with
nausea :-

Calc.

Ineffectual,
painful :-

Kreos.

Ineffectual, with much
pressing

(ague) :-
Tarax.

Ineffectual, presence
of persons unbearable :-

AMBR.

Ineffectual, with
feeling as if rectum were too weak to expel :-

Kali-c.

Ineffectual, with sharp
splinter-like cutting pains in rectum during stool :-

Nit-ac.

Ineffectual, causing
dribbling of urine :-

Card-m.

Ineffectual, then
vomiting :-

Sang.

Ineffectual, as if too
weak to expel :-

Kali-c.

Insufficient, with,
evacuation or no feces, instead thereof yellowish mucus, sometimes
mixed with blood :-

Puls.

Irresistible :-

Cist.,
Coloc.

Irresistible, early in
morning :-

Cist.

Labor-pains, caused by
spasmodic :-

Nux-v.

Labor-like pains, with,
in uterus :-

Op.

Liquid, finally a,
portion is discharged, followed by a hard portion :-

Sabin.

Menses, during,
constant

(parenchymatous
metritis) :- Lac-c.

At 5 A.M., stool
loose :-

Cahin.